Title The Hogeye Clovis cache / Michael R. Waters and Thomas A. Jennings

Edition First edition Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Peopling of the Americas Publications Contents The Hogeye Clovis cache: Discovery and naming of the cache -- Archaeological and geoarchaeological field investigations -- Surface artifact collection -- Summary -- The Clovis bifaces: Clovis biface technology -- Projectile point trajectory bifaces -- Ovate bifaces -- Cache biface analyses: Biface size -- Biface shape -- Biface thinning techniques -- Biface flaking patterns -- Chert sourcing -- The Clovis reduction sequence: comparisons with the Gault assemblage -- Summary -- Conclusions: The Hogeye Clovis cache -- Clovis caching and Clovis adaptations Summary Roughly thirteen thousand years ago, Clovis hunters cached more than fifty projectile points, preforms, and knives at the toe of a gentle slope near present-day Elgin, Bastrop County, in central Texas. Over the next millennia, deposition buried the cache several meters below the surface. The entombed artifacts lay undisturbed until 2003. A circuitous path brought thirteen of the original thirty-seven Clovis bifaces and points through many hands before reaching the attention of Michael Waters at Texas A & M University. At the site of the original cache, Waters and coauthor Thomas A. Jennings conducted excavations, studied the geology, and dated the geological layers to reconstruct how the cache was buried. This book provides a well-illustrated, thoroughly analyzed description and discussion of the Hogeye Clovis cache, the projectile points and other artifacts from later occupations, and the geological context of the site, which has yielded evidence of multiple Paleoindian, Archaic, and Late Prehistoric occupations. The cache of tools and weapons at Hogeye, when combined with other sites, allows us to envision a snapshot of life at the end of the last Ice Age Notes "Peopling of the Americas publications." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Clovis culture -- Texas -- Bastrop County Clovis points -- Texas -- Bastrop County Tools, Prehistoric -- Texas -- Bastrop County Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Texas -- Bastrop County Paleo-Indians -- Texas -- Bastrop County -- Antiquities Excavations (Archaeology) -- Texas -- Bastrop County HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Antiquities Antiquities, Prehistoric Clovis culture Clovis points Excavations (Archaeology) Paleo-Indians -- Antiquities Tools, Prehistoric SUBJECT Bastrop County (Tex.) -- Antiquities Subject Texas -- Bastrop County Form Electronic book Author Jennings, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew), 1979- author. LC no. 2014019854 ISBN 9781623492328 1623492327 1322643598 9781322643595

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